Social Issues
- Ottawa needs a new model for infrastructure spending April 4, 2013
In today's Report on Business from the Globe and Mail, MLI's Brian Lee Crowley proposes a new model for infrastructure investments in Canada Ottawa Needs a New Model for Infrastructure Spending By Brian Lee Crowley, Globe & Mail Report on Bus...
- Better-educated workers are starting at the bottom – but is that so bad? March 28, 2013
In today's Globe & Mail senior MLI Fellow Linda Nazareth writes that placing higher-educated staff in entry-level positions may not be such a bad idea. Linda Nazareth Special to The Globe and Mail Here’s a trend, you decide whe...
- MLI's Crowley in The Globe and Mail: EI for seasonal workers is a corrosive economic policy March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013 - According to MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley, "There is no justification, in logic or in economics, for seasonal EI, and the dogged pursuit of this policy flies in the face of the interests of Canada and people who become trappe...
- Should government go after EI fraud? MLI's Crowley weighs in on CBC Radio's Ontario Today March 1, 2013
March 1, 2013 - The Federal government says it is trying to recover $330 million dollars in incorrect EI payments in the past year. Much of that is suspected fraud. The Opposition calls it attacking those in need. MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowle...
- MLI Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth in The Globe and Mail: Yahoo’s telework ban smacks of another decade March 1, 2013
March 1, 2013 – In her Economy Lab blog for The Globe and Mail, MLI Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth writes about Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer's recent decision to ban working from home. According to Nazareth, "One would think that an effective company w...
- MLI’s Crowley in Postmedia: The future of global cities February 8, 2013
February 8, 2013 - MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley writes about the pattern of urban growth in Canada and the future of our cities. Read his latest Postmedia column below, also published in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Mon...
- MLI’s Crowley in Postmedia newspapers: Public sector workers should not have a right to strike January 10, 2013
January 10, 2013 - MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley says a different approach to public sector wage negotiations is needed, one where strikes have no place. He explains why in his latest Postmedia column below, which appeared in the Ottawa Citi...
- Much good news and some worrying results in new study of Muslim public opinion in Canada November 1, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE November 1, 2011, Ottawa, ON – At a time when Muslims constitute one of Canada’s fastest growing immigrant communities and Islam the fastest-growing religion, Canadians will find much to reassure them, but also much to ponder, in a...
